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tvb

Hockey got his damages for the tweets and a billboard. Not the story. And the court said the journalist acted with malice presumably for the tweets. Not good news for the Journalist. Acting with malice means his journalistic ability is seriously in question.

ross411

tvb (4,971 comments) says:
July 1st, 2015 at 10:18 am
Not good news for the Journalist. Acting with malice means his journalistic ability is seriously in question.

Likely those abilities were explicitly solicited by those who works with, given that veering on the side of slant or laziness seems rife in all the stories we discuss over and over complaining about the same old things.

I’m against punishment for political speech, regardless of whether that speech is false or even ridiculously baseless and insulting. The only proper penalty for what they did is fewer people wanting to buy their newspapers.

This seems to be an odd ruling if the tweets and posters advertising the article are held up as defamatory while the article itself escaped litigation. It seems the argument that the phrase, ‘Treasurer for sale’ was not considered an accusation of corruption is backed up by the substance of the article and the ‘overscrupulous quibbling’ was the judgement itself.

deadrightkev

It is a disgrace how the state funded media in particular have attacked Abbott and Hockey. But the Australian people are not stupid as the polls have turned, they eventually see that a bit of sound dieting and common sense is good for the body.

How the Kiwi media and blogs shamelessly attack Colin Craig is just as bad, if not worse IMHO.

doggone7

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@deadrightkev

Hockey is a bumbling clown, Abbott should have put him out to pasture after the first budget if not earlier.
Turnbull can articulate economics far better, the only problem was given how Abbott came into the leadership he had to placate Sloppy Joe, even though Abbott/Turnbull would be a far stronger leadership duo.